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The Coffee Party - the new Obama Astroturf

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 3 Mar 10

It will probably not come as a shock to anyone to learn that the new "grassroots" Coffee Party is just one more platform in the ongoing Obama campaign. Rather than being the outgrowth of some disgruntled voters who are fed up with...

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Princess Pelosi is losing her stinkin mind!

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 2 Mar 10

[i]PELOSI: But you know we share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interests in Washington, D.C.. It has to stop. And many Tea Partiers — not that I speak for them — share the view, whether it's...

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Why Does Obama have so many supporters named Ellie Light? An Astroturf Story

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 26 Jan 10

Often a political organization or party will write a letter on an issue and ask their members to send this letter to their Congressmen or Senators, etc. As far as I know, they usually do not ask them to send the same letter to...

letter writing campaign

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Who's the "astroturf"?

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 16 Oct 09

This quote is from an Email sent to Obama supporters: "After months of negotiations, the health reform debate is about to move to the full Congress for the first time. With the insurance industry lobby pulling out all the stops...

organizing for america

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Astroturf grass for guinea pigs

leafygreens08 @leafygreens08 (754) • United States 15 Sep 09

I went shopping the other day and bought a 4 X 6 ft. roll of astroturf for my pet guinea-pig. I thought this would be a good idea for him to play on. It has a rubber backing to help protect the floor/carpet when he is let out of...

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Obama, One Term President

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 24 Aug 09

It wasn't a bunch of "astroturf" that said that.. it was Obama's own Press Secretary, Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs, Prs. Obama, I'll drink to that! ;~D

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Wake up call for Obama, Pelosi and Reid...

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 14 Aug 09

Hey, Central Committee, a lot of that "Astroturf" you are treating like trash are the reason you are in office. That's right, a lot of them voted for you! Are you giving them any reason to make the same mistake again?

central committee

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And they accuse US of "organizing"?

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 14 Aug 09

Work for Grassroots Campaigns on behalf of the League of Conservation Voters to elect pro-environment candidates and fight corporate polluters! Since January 2009, dirty energy companies have spent almost $80 million to lobby...

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Brooks Brothers, Obamacare and ZZ Top - don't step on the astroturf

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 7 Aug 09

I had to post this because I love it. It cuts right through the latest attack on those opposed to Obamacare - you know, the accusation that it's not a grassroots movement, it's "astroturf" and Senator Barbara Boxer's newly coined...

brooks brothers

health care reform

town hall meetings

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